The Jordanian government said on Thursday that it planned to release on August 20 four prisoners transferred earlier from Israel after ending 75 per cent of their remaining jail term in accordance with the Jordanian law, according to dpa. "The jail term of prisoners - Sultan Ajlouni, Salem Abu Ghalyoun, Khalid Abu Ghalyoun and Amin al-Sane - will terminate on August 20 under Jordanian law," the spokesman for the Public Security Department Major Mohammad Khatib said. "The Justice Ministry has already informed the Israeli authorities that the remaining jail term of the four Jordanian citizens will be calculated according to the valid Jordanian legislations" which allow their release after spending three quarters of their remaining imprisonment term, he added. The four men were handed over by Israel to Jordan in July last year as a gesture of goodwill to spend the rest of their imprisonment at Jordanian jails. The four prisoners were serving life sentences after Israeli courts found them guilty of killing two Israeli soldiers in 1991.
